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This is an impartial (not implicitly biased to a single governing body, the BRFC) and comprehensive record list of 308 British record freshwater fish, past and present, involving 60 different species/sub-species of fish caught using the traditional angling method of rod and line. Records to include the angler, species, weight, date, venue, also referenced with a recognizable publication. The list is intended to include all categories of fish caught by anglers, that enter freshwater including (coarse and game fish) and some migratory sea fish. The time since last record fish was caught is 203 days.
On 9th November 2023, the British Record (Rod Caught) Fish Committee (BRFC) agreed that it would reinstate the record listing for Wels catfish, with claims open to fish over 130lb.
| Image | Species | Weight (lb oz) |
Captor | Date | Water | County | Time record held |
References/ Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Barbel (Barbus barbus) | 21 lb 2 oz | Colin Smithson | 7 November 2019 | River Rother, Fittleworth | West Sussex | 4 years, 301 days | [1][2][3] |
 | Bream (Common or Bronze) (Abramis brama) | 22 lb 11 oz | Scot Crook | 7 April 2012 | Ferry Lagoon, Fen Drayton Lakes, | Cambridgeshire | 12 years, 149 days | [1][4] Note 1 |
 | Bream (Silver) (Blicca bjoerkna) | 3 lb 4 oz | Gareth Evans | 21 May 2012 | Mill Farm Fishery, Bury, near Pulborough | West Sussex | 12 years, 105 days | [1][5][6] |
 | Carp, Common (Cyprinus carpio {communia} ) | 64 lb 6 oz | Chris Caddick | 29 Aug 2018 | The Avenue, RH Fisheries | Shropshire | 6 years, 5 days | [7] * Note 8 |
 | Carp, Leather (Cyprinus carpio {corium} ) | 54 lb 8 oz | Steve Fudge | 2006 | Car Park Lake, Yateley Complex, Yateley | Surrey | 16 years | [8][9] * Note 8 |
 | Carp, Mirror (Cyprinus carpio {speculo} ) | 75 lb 2 oz | Wayne Mansford | 12 Oct 2020 | Meadows Lake, Holme Fen Fishery | Cambridgeshire | 3 years, 327 days | [10] |
 | Chub (Squalius cephalus) | 9 lb 5 oz | Neill Stephen | 16 March 2012 | Fishers Green Complex, River Lea, Waltham Abbey, | Essex | 12 years, 171 days | [11][12] * Note 9 |
 | Crucian carp (Carassius carassius) | 4 lb 12 oz | Julian Barnes | 3 May 2021 | Johnsons Lake, Milford, Godalming | Surrey | 3 years, 123 days | [1][13][14][15] |
 | Grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) | 56 lb 2 oz | Alan Cooper | 7 July 2023 | Little Moulsham Lake, Yateley | Surrey | 1 year, 58 days | [16] * Note 8 |
 | Grayling (Thymallus thymallus) | 4 lb 8 oz | Simon Ellis | 19 Feb 2019 | River Frome, Ilsington near Puddletown | Dorset | 5 years, 197 days | [17]* Note 8 |
 | Golden Orfe (Leuciscus idus) | 8 lb 5 oz | Michael Wilkinson | April 2000 | Lymm Vale | Cheshire | 23 years, 140 days | [18][1][19][20] |